Publications


Black Underworld

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Michael “Fray” Salters (above center-in hat) has been dead thirty years but his name still carries weight up and down the drug corridors on the East Coast; including his home base of Washington, D.C. […]

Drug Boss: Frank Matthews

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In the 1970s the heroin market in the United States was dominated by a black distributor named Frank Matthews who operated out of New York. He was the most notable black figure on the east coast at the time […]

Outlaw Heroes

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American popular culture has long been infatuated with the bad guys. In the pantheon of outlaw heroes a large number of mythical figures have become a part of American folklore […]

Growing Gorilla Convict

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When I first came up with the idea to form Gorilla Convict Publications in 2005, I didn’t know what would become of the company or where it would take me. I didn’t have a plan, only a purpose and a vision […]

American Gangsters

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Just like Hollywood catapulted the Italian Mafia into the mainstream with the Godfather movies, New Jack City documented the devastating crack epidemic and the drug crews that terrorized and held court in the city’s projects […]

Calls from the pen

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So, I’d been getting a few random phone calls from people, I know who are inside the clinker, and surprisingly the calls were not collect. They were straight through calls coming directly to my cell phone FROM their cell phones […]